Use Zeckensack for Carmageddon 2 if you want to use Glide.

Tried Zeckensack, which also works just fine - but still doesn't fix the missing sound issue unfortunately 🙁

Nilfisken wrote:

I Just got my beloved Carmageddon 2 running on my Vista laptop using dgvoodoo.
It runs perfectly in direct3d mode and not quite so perfectly in Glide mode with some weird weird graphics errors and occassional crashes. (It doesn't even consider running in direct draw mode).
Common to both working modes however is that none of them has any sound at all - not in the intro sequence, not in the menus, not when driving, not at any time. No music either.

well dgVoodoo is a Glide wrapper but won't handle sound/music issues,
is Carmageddon 2 a cdrom game?

Besides using dgVoodoo zip files, what are you using dgVoodoo with to have sound ? Sapucdex, or VDMSound maybe ? Or both?

Well VDM-sound doesn't give me the option to run it with Carmageddon 2, I guess since it's not a dos game or something like that.
But as I am a newbie, I don't know what Sapucdex is. But is there any way to use VDM sound with Carm 2? Or any other solution...?

And yes, it is a CD-rom game, or at least it needs the CD-rom to play.

I guess you could try this:

http://carmadownloads.jjunkies.com/index.php?act=view&id=312

Never had to use it myself.

Tried the patch, but *sigh* still no sound...
And a correction. It doesn't need the CD to play.

And I'm using Zeckensack to run it now - not that that has anything to do with the sound - but thanks for the tip DosFreak, it's much more stable.

I'm guessing it doesn't fall back to "emulated" software sound but is getting stuck trying to use hardware accelerated DirectSound - which Microsoft (heartless bastards) killed off with Vista along with the gameport (from a random google search on the subject):
http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?t=5866

There are a bunch of patches that are required for Carmageddon II to run properly on XP - I know you're running Vista but maybe you could get some sound out of it if you installed those patches.

Another idea - there's a file in the data subfolder inside the carmageddon II folder called 'Options.txt' or something like that; open that up in notepad and see if there are any sound settings in there. Maybe you can force it to software mode by changing something.

Unfortunately, DGVoodoo does not work at all in Vista.

NFS2SE stopped working with DgVoodoo, used to work greatly in Windows XP. Oh well.

just tried carma 2 in xp works fine
the S key turns sound on and off did you try that ?

Yes of course, but no luck with that either 🙁

So is anyone here running Carmageddon 2 on Vista, with no sound problems at all? And how?

OK, I finally found a way to make the sound work in Carmageddon 2 on Vista.
You need to set the carma2_HW.exe (or c2_HW.exe for some) to run in Windows 98/ME Compatibility mode, and then run that file directly (instead of the Carma2.exe) - and you have sound! Woo!
(You of course need to install the XP patch as well).

However while this solves the sound issue, it creates another problem. By starting Carmageddon 2 from Carma2_HW.exe directly, I get the annoying cursor problem, with the cursor being stuck in a small boxed area of the screen, making it impossible to buy as well as change cars (though you could say that "since you can't buy new cars, you have no need for the ability to change cars - problem solved 😁").... But that problem does not belong to this thread.

Thx for all the help =)

http://www.ntcompatible.com/Carmageddon_2_-_C … Now_t23387.html

Well that fixes that! Thanks again 😁

Okay, it may be a little late, but i just remembered the game, bought it, and tried to play it, Sound didn't work, i did what you guys said, Sound works, but the game crashes when i try to start the race, any help?

EDIT: Never mind. Installed The patch wrong. Thanks For the help. 😁

A little late to the topic, but I can not get the CD-audio tracks to play using the methods described above. Game runs fine, and I have sound, but no CD-audio. Any ideas whats amiss?